Candelaria received an AB in public policy from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.<ref name=email>Email submission to Ballotpedia on July 22, 2012</ref>

Candelaria received an AB in public policy from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.<ref name=email>Email submission to Ballotpedia on July 22, 2012</ref>

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==Committee assignments==

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===2013-2014===

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At the beginning of the 2013 legislative session, Candelaria served on the following committees:

Candelaria, at age 25, is currently the youngest serving member of the New Mexico State Senate, and is also the first openly gay state senator in New Mexico's history.[1]

Biography

Candelaria has worked as a leadership fellow with Think New Mexico, a Santa Fe-based think tank, working on education reform legislation to address New Mexico's high-school dropout rates. He has also spent time as a program evaluator for the New Mexico Legislative Finance Committee. He served as a policy analyst to former state house Speaker Ben Lujan (D-Nambe).[2]

Candelaria serves as executive director of Equality New Mexico and is a board member of the Learners Chess Academy.[2]

Candelaria received an AB in public policy from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.[2]

Committee assignments

2013-2014

At the beginning of the 2013 legislative session, Candelaria served on the following committees: